Includes bibliographical references and index.

|tIntertextuality and the semiotics of biblical texts /|rStefan Alkier --|tIntertextuality and historical approaches to the use of scripture in the New Testament / |rSteve Moyise --|tHow does God act? : intertextual readings of 1 Corinthians 10 /|rMichael Schneider -- |tAllegorical readings in intertextuality : narrative abbreviations of the Adam story in Paul (Romans 1:18-28) / |rEckart Reinmuth --|tThe Matthean Jesus and the Isaac of the early Jewish encyclopedia /|rLeroy Andrew Huizenga -- |tPaul as user, interpreter and reader of the book of Isaiah /|rFlorian Wilk --|tThe liberation of Israel in luke-Acts : intertextual narration as countercultural practice /|rRichard B. Hays --|tPsalm 113 and the song of Hannah (1 Samuel 2:1-10) : a paradigm for intertextual reading? /|rMarianne Grohmann --|tCanon as intertext : restraint or liberation? /|rGeorge Aichele --|tChristian apocalypses and their mimetic potential in pagan education : a contribution concerning Lucian's True history /|rPeter von Möllendorf --|tNonnus and his tradition /|rThomas A. Schmitz --|tLiterary reading(s) of the Bible : aspects of a semiotic conception of intertextuality and intertextual analysis of texts /|rMagdolna Orosz --|tReading the Bible in the context of "thick description" : reflections of a practical theologian on a phenomenological concept of contextuality /|rHans-Günter Heimbrock --|tNew Testament studies on the basis of categorical semiotics /|rStefan Alkier.

Even in an era of expanding methodologies for biblical studies, psalms study seems to be stuck in the old tracks of form criticism. While often beneficial, form criticism excludes two important ways of reading the psalms: that of reading the psalms with the narratives of the Hebrew Scriptures as the historical super-scriptions suggest, and that of a feminist reading by expanding an exclusive focus on the cult. This book looks to correct these problems by investigating the psalms via intertextual method, both by seeing the psalms as intertextual - made up of a multitude of other texts - and by reading the psalms intertextually with texts outside the psalms. This book also introduces the reader to the variety of intertextual theories in the literary guild and develops an intertextual hermeneutic of biblical study based on these theories that bridges the gap between literary theory and the practice of biblical interpretation. --From publisher's description.